Leadershipedelics

In this episode, meet Claire Jones. Claire is a Senior VP of Operations for a digital advertising company in Toronto. She’s passionate about people and mental health. She’s studying for a master’s in psychology & neuroscience, and also volunteers for several non-profit organizations focused on mental health. We talked a few weeks after Claire got back from her first ayahuasca journey in Costa Rica. She recounts her experience, from preparation, to the actual ayahuasca ceremonies, to the integration phase where the hard work begins. She shares many lessons she gained along the way and how she’s integrating them in her work. We cover many topics, from trauma to the importance of slowing down and making space and time for yourself.

Enjoy. 🙏❤️

💡Highlights💡

• The dire need for more focus on mental health in the world
• Personal aspect of trauma
• Lack of early education in mental health
• Claire’s journey to Costa Rica
• The journey back and the integration period
• Letting go the fear of vulnerability
• Creating space and time for yourself
• And more…

Connecting with Claire

·      LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-michelle-jones/

Connecting with Sébastien

• fooyad.com

In this episode, meet Shannon Dames. She is a professor and researcher at Vancouver Island University, a resilience Health professional investigator, and the Research and Development director for the Roots to Thrive Ketamine assisted therapy program. She is working to develop and study the combination of resilience development and psychedelic-assisted therapies within a novel outpatient mental health model.

We discuss the role of community in the healing process and why the healing journey should start at the basement of the soul, rather than at the mind. Shannon talks about bringing together western medicine and the indigenous ways of healing and working with the medicines of the land. And finally, she shares her own personal healing journey. 

 Enjoy. 🙏❤️

💡Highlights💡

• Staying grounded while flowing
• Over-preparing’s impact on inspiration
• Healing through Community
• Taking resilience development beyond the mind
• Operating as whole person
• Healing at root level rather than top down
• The basement of your soul
• Partnership with First Nations 
• Honoring the indigenous ways of knowing and working with the medicine of the land
• Shannon’s spiritual journey 

Connecting with Shannon Dames

• www.linkedin.com/in/shannondames/
• www.rootstothrive.com

Connecting with Sébastien

• fooyad.com

“What kept me in LA wanting to make films for all these years was my ego.”
~ Martin de Bókay

 In today’s episode, I travelled to Arizona to meet with Martin de Bókay for a live video interview in the beautiful red rocks of Sedona. Martin, who goes by “French Guru” on Instagram, was someone I had to meet. After watching a few of his videos, it was clear he’d done a lot of deep personal work and had had quite a journey. Sure enough, the story he shared was nothing short of inspiring and energizing. 

Martin spent half his life in Europe and half in the US. He’s worked as a producer in the film industry in Hollywood on music videos, films, documentaries, TV shows and followed his dream to make films. On all accounts, he had it all, but it all came to a head when he realized he wasn’t honoring his core self and felt a strong calling to elevate himself and bring alignment to his life. He crossed path with the plant medicine Ayahuasca and then everything changed.

This is his story.

I recommend watching the interview on our YouTube channel if you can:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-mviHHUo5IDtq4Yz6EY4HQ

Enjoy 🙏❤️

💡Highlights💡

• Creativity in the film industry
• Finding spiritual realization in hikes
• The magic of Sedona
• When ego takes over your dream
• Listening to your internal voice
• Experiential side of Ayahuasca
• Protecting yourself in order to give to others
• Weathering the unexpected in life
• Honoring your uniqueness and your core values
• Bringing your passion and voice back into your life

 Connecting with Martin de Bókay

• French Guru on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frenchguru/

About Sébastien and the Sacred Creativity Retreat

• Contacting Sébastien: fooyad.com
• Sacred Creativity Retreat: sacredcreativityretreat.com

#creativity #create #creator #authenticity #authentic #yourvoice #plantmedicine #ayahuasca #spiritualjourney #journey #spiritual #inspiration #mentalhealth #filmindustry #hollywood #sedona #leadership #leader #leadershipedelics #podcast #live #interview

This week, meet Lakshmi Narayan.

Lakshmi Narayan is the co-founder and editor of awake.net, a non-profit collective wisdom blog about the inner journey with entheogens, and founder and creative director of Awake Media a digital media coalition offering media products and services to clients in the transformational wellness community, particularly entheogenic medicine. She has a decades long interest in the cause of repositioning psychedelics in the public mind, and educating people about the benefits, cautions, best practices, and timeless wisdom that can be had from these experiences.

We talk about Lakshmi’s spiritual journey from childhood to crossing path with Ayahuasca in the 90’s, well before it became as popular as it is today. We cover a lot of ground from ibogaine, to integrating 2 years of journeying over 20 years, from climbing the ladder of consciousness to remembering who we are and finally we talk about what led Lakshmi to start Awake Media and Awake.Net.

 This is a beautiful journey of awakening and following your path to help others 🙏

💡Highlights💡

• Creating media that awakens
• The divine delusion of individualism
• Climbing the ladder of consciousness
• 20 years to integrate 2 years of intense journeys
• Finding the willingness to make change happen
• Walking on top of the Amazon
• Plant medicine as a dimensional doorway
• The story behind Awake.Net
• Accessible and affordable online integration courses
• Raising money to fund 100 Ibogaine treatments
• Searching for mentors and masters 

 🧠 Memorable Quotes 🧠

“The journey of life is to remember.” ❤️ Seb's favorite ❤️ 

 About 2 years of intense journeying with psychedelics - “It took us 20 years to actually integrate” 😮

”I just want to tell people who’re getting into it, don’t be in a rush to crystalize it into something you can sell or could teach.”

“You have this body of knowledge that wakes up in you and it’s available to everybody because we’re very very old as a species.”

Connecting with Lakshmi

• Help raise $1M for 100 Ibogaine Treatments: https://awake.net/feat-fund-for-entheogenic-addiction-treatment/
• Awake.Net: https://awake.net/
• Awake Media: https://awakemedia.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lakshminarayan/
  
  

About Sébastien and the Sacred Creativity Retreat

• Contacting Sébastien: fooyad.com
• Sacred Creativity Retreat: reatreat.fooyad.com

In this episode, meet with Amélie Beerens ✨ Amélie is a customer experience (CX) leader and career coach obsessed with putting humans at the heart of everything ❤️ Her journey to overcome trauma and burnout has reconnected her with her magic, her emotions, and her humanity. This has redefined how she approaches her work and how she helps others through coaching. 

We talk about breaking the rules to rediscover yourself, overcoming burnout & trauma and the tools she used along the way, from EMDR to yoga, from kambo to microdosing.  

Amélie’s energy is infectious, you can feel her love for life and the creativity she brings to the world. She’s a true maverick, who helps others through creative work, showing up as she is, as her whole self.

Enjoy 🙏❤️

💡Highlights💡

• Humans at the heart of everything
• Breaking the rules and rediscovering yourself
• Dealing with burnout
• Making time for self-care
• Connecting with your whole self and emotions
• Coming as you are, with the good, and the bad
• Microdosing for sleep, creativity, and life
• Shoe shopping and mind work
• Breaking away from anxiety
• Creative work to help others
• Mavericks and certifications
• EMDR therapy, yoga teacher training, Kambo, and more…

 🧠 Memorable Quotes 🧠

“We are all creatures of magic.” ❤️ Seb's favorite ❤️ 

 “The moment I started to feel better is the moment I started connecting with myself.” 

 “This element of being my real self and being able to be really compassionate with the people I work with because I can be compassionate with myself, that was what was missing with my practice before.”

Connecting with Amélie

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ameliebeerens_cxexpert/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ameliebeerens/
• Or simply: https://ameliebeerens.com/

About Sébastien and the Sacred Creativity Retreat

• Contacting Sébastien: fooyad.com
• Sacred Creativity Retreat: reatreat.fooyad.com

Today's guest is internationally renowned artist and poet, Nicholas Kirsten, known as Honshin 🙏

Five years ago, Honshin’s art changed my appreciation of the present golden moment and reshaped my own spiritual path.  Now 5 years later, I had the privilege to meet with him in his studio and talk creativity, spirituality and even play a little harmonica while he shared his poetry. 

Honshin’s art and poetry reflect his experience with ancient Eastern spiritual practices and the philosophies of Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, and ancient Mesoamerican cultures. He sees art as a form of spiritual quest and his artwork is a message from a pure heart. His intention is to communicate the unity of consciousness and life of all things in the universe.

He lives in Sedona with his wife, Krystal Kirsten, where they operate two galleries - The Gallery of Wholeness, Harmony, and Radiance, and The Ascending Spirit Gallery. You have to stop there if you ever visit Sedona.

This was truly a golden moment. Enjoy 🙏❤️

Connecting with Honshin
• http://honshinfineart.com/
• [email protected]
• IG: https://www.instagram.com/honshin_fine_art/

About Leadershipedelics and the Sacred Creativity Retreat
•  www.leadershipedelics.com 
•  Sacred Creativity Retreat: reatreat.fooyad.com
•  Contacting Sébastien: fooyad.com

#creativity #art #artist #sedona #spirituality #moment #present #goldenmoment #goldenmoments #presentmoment #beherenow #mentalhealth #leadership #leadershipedelics 

Meet David Wood, David has been on a mission to broaden regulated access to psychedelics. He is the Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel at Psygen, a Canadian company manufacturing pharmaceutical-grade psychedelics for clinicians and researchers. David also runs R-Group Legal where he provides legal support for a small number of operators in the cannabis industry and the psychedelic space.

We talk about substance regulation in Canada versus the US. We cover the special access program available for end-of-life distress for psilocybin in Canada. We cover the war on drugs and bring it all back to leadership with a bit of perspective on the mycelium network, and a touch of Steve Jobs, Smashing Pumpkins and Pink Floyd.

Enjoy 🙏❤️

💡Highlights💡

• Substance regulation in Canada vs. US
• Psilocybin for end-of-life distress and the special access program
• Pure synthetic psilocybin vs. natural
• The war on drugs
• Disruptive potential of psychedelics
• Perspective in life and leadership
• Breaking the stigma associated with psychedelics 
• Pink Floyd, Smashing Pumpkins, the Mycelium network
• David’s journey from the biggest national law firm in Canada to Psygen
• And more…

 🧠 Memorable Quotes 🧠

“The war on drugs lumped a bunch of substances together that have very little to do with each other, other than the fact they are all prohibited, and they all put you off baseline with very different ways and consequences.”

 “Psychedelics are a substance that are very disruptive to mental healthcare and to the pharmaceutical industry that supplies drugs for mental healthcare.”

 “Psychedelics are pharmacologically and therapeutically relevant but there is also something so connected to what makes us humans human that cannot be overlooked.”

Connecting with David

• Psygen: https://psygen.ca/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dowood/

About Leadershipedelics and the Sacred Creativity Retreat

• www.leadershipedelics.com 
• Sacred Creativity Retreat: reatreat.fooyad.com
• Contacting Sébastien: fooyad.com

Meet Holly Huber, a Neuromodulation Consultant in the pursuit of bolstering 
the spiritual consciousness and connection of humanity. Holly has worked with neurofeedback in mental health and for intensive brain training with peak performance elites. She’s seen humans push themselves past the possible, find Spirit and their superpowers.

She’s doing work with the NeuroEnlightenment team in the Sacred Valley, provides NeuroTraining and is starting NeuroRetreats in the US this August.

We talk brain, psychedelics, the divinity of life, poetry, and the magic around us. This episode was loaded with insights, filmed on location in front of a majestic waterfall which you have to see it (on our YouTube channel) to believe it (and also explains the background noise and 12 hours to clean our audio).

Enjoy 🙏❤️

💡Highlights💡

• Brain mapping & training and psychedelics
• Remote neurofeedback
• Flow state and creativity
• Our superpowers within
• Divinity of life
• Spirituality, magic, & poetry
• Burnout and the brain
• Brain, heart, and consciousness 

 🧠 Memorable Quotes 🧠

 “I have worked in mental health, and I worked in peak performance, and over and over I see this divinity, this beauty within life and aliveness with people.“

 “Resiliency is an opening and a flexibility to life. It is changing the tread in your journey to fit the new paths that you’re on.” 

 “Psychedelics are such an opener and connector and then it’s up to us to do something with it afterwards.”

Connecting with Holly

• Website: neuroholly.com
• Tarot website: thebrightheart.com
• Book: Our Dreams That Are Promises: Huber, Holly: 9798812389062: Amazon.com: Books

About Leadershipedelics, Sébastien, and upcoming retreat

• www.leadershipedelics.com 
• Sébastien's projects: fooyad.com
• October 2022 Creativity Retreat: reatreat.fooyad.com

#neurofeedback #brainmapping #braintraining #psychedelics #divinity #magicaroundus #waterfall #creativity #leadership #mentalhealth #burnout #leadershipedelics #superpowers #humanity #peru

In this episode of Leadershipedelics, meet Hanifa Nayo Washington. Hanifa is a social entrepreneur, cultural producer, and healing justice practitioner. She is a facilitator, reiki master, singer, song writer, and a creator who works at the intersection of mindfulness, place making, and social justice to create organizations, gatherings, spaces, and experiences rooted in the values of beloved community.

She is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer for Fireside Project. She is involved with the American Psychedelic Practitioners Association, East Forest’s Journey Space, and the Global Wellness Institute Psychedelics & Healing Initiative. She is the co-founder of One Village Healing, a BIPOC centered healing, resilience, and psychedelic wellness space and is a lead facilitator of the New Haven Community Leadership Program.

 We cover a wide range of topics including Hanifa’s medicine songs, her creative process, and how these songs have helped her and others in their journeys. We talk about the importance of listening in our lives, in leadership, in helping one another, and to drive change. We cover the Fireside project, its mission, training approach, and upcoming equity initiative. Hanifa closes our interview by singing a song from her Mantras for the Revolution album.

Enjoy 🙏❤️

💡Highlights💡

• Hanifa’s creative and integration process
• Singing in morning rituals, ceremonies, with breathwork and somatic work
• Reverence and awe about life
• Connecting with the vibration of everything
• The sacredness and honor that come from holding space
• Finding coherence with each other in an intentional way
• Importance of listening for leadership and change
• Fireside Project’s mission and approach
• Fireside Project’s new equity initiative 
• The power of silence and reflective questions
• Acknowledging and addressing power dynamics
• Generational trauma, wisdom, and gifts
• And much more

🧠 Memorable Quotes 🧠

“Listening is at the heart of change, of connection. When we think about social justice movement and liberation, listening, or not, is how we use our power.”

“When we are listened to, it is one of the most absolute gifts and declaration of respect we can give one another.” 

“Healing is a birthright and people just need more and more access to it.”

Connecting with Hanifa

• www.handsofhanifa.com
• Mantras for the Revolution album

IG 

• @thehandsofhanifa
• @firesideproject
• @onevillagehealing

About Leadershipedelics, Sébastien, and upcoming retreat

• www.leadershipedelics.com 
• Sébastien's projects: fooyad.com
• October 2022 Creativity Retreat: reatreat.fooyad.com

#listening #healing #songwriter #singer #mentalhealth #BIPOC #psychedelics
#creativity 

For this interview, I flew to Peru to meet with Jose Franchini Vasquez, an Ayahuascero from a small village in the Peruvian jungle near Pucallpa. Jose has been working with the plant medicines Ayahuasca and Chacruna for over 13 years. He was taught by his uncle, the highly honored teacher Antonio Vasquez Galarreta, and he is the brother of Pepe Franchini Vasquez who was featured in the movie The Last Shaman. I’ve known Jose for several years and we’re working with him and his brother on a very special retreat for this October.

Jose opens and closes the interview with one of his medicine songs known as an Icaro which makes this meeting even more special. We talk about his journey with plant medicine, the diets, fasting, and challenges he had to overcome. We discuss how he heals others whether they’re from his village or as part of a retreat. We talk about life outside his medicine work as a teacher, dad and respected community leader, the meaning behind Shipibo tapestries and the properties of tobacco as plant medicine. 

The interview is both in English and Spanish with many thanks to Kunti Trejo for providing her help as translator. Don’t miss this one. Enjoy.

💡Highlights💡

• The journey of an Ayahuascero
• Working with plant medicine from the jungle
• Diets, cleansing, and medicine songs
• Clearing energy blockages
• Running ceremonies
• Life outside medicine work
• Tobacco as a medicine plant
• Healing with nature
• The meaning behind Shipibo tapestries 

Connecting with Jose

• You can connect with Jose through our contact form on the retreat.fooyad.com web page and we will forward you your contact information.

 About Leadershipedelics, Sébastien, and upcoming creativity retreat

• www.leadershipedelics.com 
• Sébastien's projects: fooyad.com
• October 2022 Creativity Retreat: retreat.fooyad.com